Re:A Message about iOS Security
by saagarjha on Friday September 06, 2019 @07:19PM
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I just read the article I linked a bit more closely, and it's worse than I thought: pretty much everything in it is wrong.
> The details of the exploits are being kept a secret
They are not.
> Four out of the six bugs can trigger a malicious code on an iOS device, and a user doesn’t even need to do anything. Simply sending the message to the phone will execute the code once a person opens and looks at the message.
No.
The article also fails to mention that the the bugs targeted previous versions of iOS and have been fixed by Apple. And finally, the title makes it clear that "1B Apple users could be hacked", which is categorically false and much closer in meaning to my headline than yours.
> The details of the exploits are being kept a secret
They are not.
> Four out of the six bugs can trigger a malicious code on an iOS device, and a user doesn’t even need to do anything. Simply sending the message to the phone will execute the code once a person opens and looks at the message.
No.
The article also fails to mention that the the bugs targeted previous versions of iOS and have been fixed by Apple. And finally, the title makes it clear that "1B Apple users could be hacked", which is categorically false and much closer in meaning to my headline than yours.